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This is Ask An Expert, where every weekday at 9:20am, KCBS Radio is giving you direct access to top experts in various fields. Today: Gene-editing technology allows scientists to work with DNA in unprecedented ways, but there are larger scientific...

For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered baby.

Backed by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his husband, along with Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong, the startup—called...

Pronatalism is an old idea with roots in eugenics and nationalism, that is now fashionable among far-right influencers and policymakers. They talk...

This is the 10th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...

By Carolyn Johnson, Washington Post | 09.11.2015
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This summer, a panel of genetics experts did something surprising: they put out a list of genetic tests...

By Steph Yin, Popular Science | 09.10.2015
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Almost six months ago exactly, a group of scientists published an editorial in Nature entitled “Don’t edit the...

By Associated Press, New York Post | 09.10.2015
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SORKHI, India — When Sadhuram Berwal wanted to get married, his family went about it in the traditional...

By Matthew W. Hughey & Devon R. Goss, USAPP Blog [London School of Economics and Political Science] | 09.10.2015
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With the years of racially segregated sports now long behind us, many would consider that sports coverage is...

By James Gallagher, BBC | 09.10.2015
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It is "essential" that the genetic modification of human embryos is allowed, says a group of scientists, ethicists...

By Nathaniel Comfort, Nature | 09.10.2015
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In 1976, Richard Dawkins, then a 35-year-old Oxford lecturer in animal behaviour, published his first book, The Selfish...

By Staff Reporter, Want China Times | 09.10.2015
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Chinese companies in the field of genetic testing are charging extremely low prices for their services in the...

By Judith Levine, Seven Days [Vermont] | 09.09.2015
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By the time you read this, Ohio may be the second state to outlaw abortion of a fetus...